Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are trying to garner the support of the roughly 41 million Gen Z voters who will be eligible to vote in November. Unlike Harris, who has relied heavily on paid influencers to reach those voters, Trump has a plan that's a little closer to home.
Trump is actively campaigning for these voters, thanks to a secret weapon: his son, Barron Trump.
Barron Trump arrives at NYU on his first day of college. https://t.co/z9tT6YbU0p pic.twitter.com/e1o0XYFbix
— New York Post (@nypost) September 4, 2024
Trump said According to the Daily Mail, Barron Trump has become something of a political consultant to Trump, introducing him to podcasters and streamers who can relate to Gen Z voters.
“He knows a lot about that,” Trump said, “working with Adyn Roth, a generation of people that I didn't know very well, but he knows them all, and we've had great success.” Luke: Kamala failed to hide her biggest election weakness from voters.
BREAKING: President Trump has admitted that his 18-year-old son, Barron, is his secret weapon in helping him win the Gen Z vote, and that Barron is behind every viral show he's on.
“Is he helping to capture the votes of Gen Z, the younger generation?”
Trump: “Yes… he knows very well about it.” pic.twitter.com/90qOHZtg3Y
— George (@BehizyTweets) September 4, 2024
The livestream with Aiden Ross was viewed by nearly 600,000 people and sparked a series of interviews with Trump that demonstrated his desire to meet voters where they consume content, like Elon Musk at X Spaces and Theo Von's This Past Weekend.
Theo Von teaches Donald Trump about cocaine is the funniest thing I've seen this year pic.twitter.com/OVPHLENcZx
— Adam Foster (@AdamFostermusic) August 20, 2024
Not only is Trump targeting Gen Z audiences with interviews in non-traditional media, he's also spending millions to advertise during college football game-day programming. He's going all out. Luke: Kamala's campaign crossed a line and now she's paying the price.
I live in California so I rarely see Trump ads, but throughout the day I was watching college football, Trump ran two different ads, this was one of them. pic.twitter.com/9APqIXPiAR
— Joanne_Lopez_Dow🇺🇸 (@dow_lopez) September 2, 2024
Trump acknowledges that his son Barron knows a lot about this, but doesn't say it's because his son is online — it's merely implied. The reality is that Barron is Donald Trump's son, and so he's probably using an anonymous account to stay hidden while still staying connected in this world.
Somewhere there is likely an anonymous account where Barron posts (bragging) conservative content and enjoys a little meme action of his own to take control of the establishment that has been trying to destroy his family for the last decade. Barron entered politics at a young age, but old enough to understand what the establishment media was doing to his parents. He was forced to watch the jackals attack his father and mother. His help in taking down the powerful establishment hunk from his throne is the only way he will be able to do so.
Barron has put up the posters and is “fully aware” of them.
Of course his brothers are sympathetic, but he's from here, so to speak. https://t.co/06zKMga56a
— ib (@Indian_Bronson) September 4, 2024
Harris doesn't have nearly as much support on her side: She has support from left-leaning thinkers through her stepdaughter and through online influencers who are likely paid, but not as much as her children, who have received hate and want to see their father win. How liberal pollsters are recreating the 2016 wave of silent Trump supporters
And it's clearly working.
Latest SurveyUSA Election Poll Showed Trump leads Harris by four points among voters ages 18 to 34, and the survey found that 87% of this age group, which includes some Gen Z and millennials, say they will definitely or probably vote in the 2024 general election.
This could be a turning point for Trump, who has seen Republicans, especially younger generations, typically vote Democrat.
